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The characters belong to Sai Yukino and Kairi Yura, Kadokawa Shoten,
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I'm
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Fic LJ's Fic Battle
Prompt 92)
Kouyuu/Shuuei. Red-light district
By
firewolf
September
2008
Kouyuu didn't understand why Shuuei thought 'broadening his horizons' involved visiting the Red-light district. For all that Kouyuu had a healthy respect for Kochou sama's sheer presence, strength of character and status as a leader in the underworld community, visiting her at the Kogarou still made him nervous.
However, to be fair, Kochou and her girls always managed to get him to relax before the evening was through, and they respectfully never attempted to breech his personal boundaries. Still, Kouyuu was quite sure Kochou and her girls really should have better things to do than listen to his discourses on art and literature, or review music technique and interpretations on the Guzheng.
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While Kouyuu had always been uncomfortable about visiting the red light distinct, the scholar would still agreed to go whenever Shuuei asked and this thrilled the man. It also amused the General that Kochou and her girls were always excited about Kouyuu's visits and Shuuei knew they'd practically fight among themselves to reschedule clients so that they could be among the six girls 'assigned' to entertain them for the night.
Shuuei often wonder what Kouyuu would say if he knew Kochou conspired with him to have the aqua haired scholar visit the Kogarou at least once a month to give the girls lessons on the Fine Arts of Saiunkoku; that all of Kochou's girls were in love with him. Or that Kochou herself would do anything Kouyuu might ever ask of her because he always treated her girls respectfully and was willing to teach them without prejudice.
Then again, Shuuei also knew that Kouyuu liked teaching the eager and he naturally relaxed and enjoyed himself when he gave these 'impromptu' lessons at the Kagarou. And Shuuei did truly love watching Kouyuu in his element as an instructor. It also didn't hurt that after these lessons, Kouyuu was always in the mood for gentle, unhurried love making where he'd not worry about stealing away in the middle of the night, and might even allow Shuuei to wake up with him in the morning.
Now if Shuuei could also figure out how to get around Reishin Sama's dagger throwing eyes in the days and weeks that followed and the subtle threats of assassins too, he'd conspire to arrange these lessons more often with Kochou sama.
~owari~
Thanks
for reading.
Cheers, firewolf
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